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Community Conversation with PGCMLS CEO Mark Winston

Co-presented with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights

Join the Prince George’s County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George’s County Memorial Library System for a Community Conversation with Prince George's County Memorial Library System's new CEO, Mark Winston.

Dr. Mark Winston is an author, columnist, and book reviewer. In January 2024, he was appointed the CEO of The Prince George’s County Memorial Library System in Largo, Maryland. He has spent most of his career in library management and university faculty positions, including holding the positions of librarian, public library director, university library director, assistant chancellor for academic affairs, engagement officer, development officer, and full-time faculty member. He has also served as a management consultant and trainer and diversity consultant and trainer, working with a range of academic, corporate, and public sector client organizations.

His research and writing, focusing on various aspects of leadership in libraries, access to information, economic inequality, and public policy, have included three books and more than forty authored or co-authored research journal articles and book chapters. He has been the recipient of numerous awards for his research, including the American Library Association National Award for Achievement in Library Diversity Research, the Literati Network Award of Excellence for a “Highly Commended Paper” entitled “Leadership in Times of Crisis and Change,” and the Reference Services Press Award for Outstanding Article for “Reference and Information Services for Young Adults: A Research Study of Public Libraries in New Jersey.” He writes a column entitled Diversity Matters for the Journal of Information Ethics. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of scholarly journals and held numerous leadership roles nationally in the library profession, including in the American Library Association. His undergraduate degree in Business Management is from Hampton University and his master’s degree in library science and PhD in library and information science are from the University of Pittsburgh.